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Registration is open for the April 20 event "Addressing Financial Toxicity in U.S. Healthcare: The Physician Perspective," featuring @anaeze_offodile, Khurram Nasir and Vivian Ho bakerinstitute.org/events/2254/

There's all sorts of stuff you can do with this data. For starters, "Download the hospital-level dataset" Then sort by Fund Balance (cash reserves), highest to lowest. Many well-known hospitals have BILLIONS in cash reserves and double-digit profit margins.

I provided a bit of guidance, but @anaeze_offodile and Marcelo Cerullo, MD MPH did the heavy lifting and taught me a lot about private equity in the process. I'm so glad I met you two! Keep up your pursuit of research topics aimed at improving our healthcare system.

Thanks Maggie Shi and Sam Stripling, and the other #ASHEcon2022 attendees for many helpful comments!

An article by CNBC Make It's Tom Huddleston Jr. cites a 2008 study by Health & Biosciences's Vivian Ho & Rice’s Baker Institute S&T Policy Program's Kirstin Matthews that found that the Gates Foundation helped spur greater financial support at the National Institutes of Health for research into vaccines: cnb.cx/3uWsyjr

JUST OUT: Two new bills introduced in the Texas Legislature could jeopardize the care received by Medicaid patients, writes Health & Biosciences's Vivian Ho. She explains why the legislation would weaken county-owned insurance plans and raise Texans’ tax bills: bit.ly/3V0akcy

We analyzed data from the NASHP Hospital Cost Tool and found that nonprofit hospitals use their proceeds to boost cash reserves rather than provide more charity care. healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…

If you’re interested in looking at the data source for particular hospitals, the latest version of the dataset is here: tool.nashp.org

Click on the “Download the hospital-level dataset” link. Then go to the “HCT Data” worksheet. Following are the columns we used from the Excel spreadsheet: W: Fund balance, which we refer to as cash reserves in the paper AB: Net charity care cost BP: Operating profit (loss)

Here are some of the #'s for 2019 (the last year of our study sample) : Cash Reserves/Charity Care/Operating Profit NYU Langone $3.0b/15.7m/579m NY Presbyterian $8.3b/43.2m/1.1b Stanford Health Care $4.0b/33.8b/1.5b Houston Methodist $5.8b/45.8b/590m

🚨📈 Over the past 25 years, the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance has skyrocketed! But why is this happening? In a recent #HAScholar Health Affairs piece, Vivian Ho (Vivian Ho) & I do some investigation. 1/10 🧵

Full article⬇️ Read, & retweet widely! 10/10 end🧵academic.oup.com/healthaffairss…